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-47 The Regular meeting of the Board of Trustees was held at the Mesier Home- stead on Wednesday E~enin~ December 5th. I945 at 7;3o P.~. Those present. Trustee Paggt,Templs, K~ne,Berin~to,Terwil~iger,Mayor MoCa$ ferry,Treas. LeRoy and Atty. Schofield. Absent. Trustee Riley. Meeting called to order. Rol£ call. The minutes of the previous regular special meeting were read. Upon motion by Trustee K~,ne and seconded by Trus- tee Temple the minutes stands adopted as read. Mayor MoCaf~*erty ~unounced the regular order of business be. dispense with in order to hear from those who are present who wishes to speak before the members of the Board. Mrs. Jorgenson spoke on behalf of the delegation of residents from Mesier avenue who was present. ~rs Jorgenson announced that the purpose of the residents from Mesier Avenue being present at this meeti-ng was to petition the Board to have the General Case Company discontinue the burning of soft coal which is a public nuisance in the neighborhood. Mayor McCaffer~ty'annou- need that he had received a copy of letter sent to one of the resident by the Ge~neral Case Co. and he requested treasurer EeRoy ~o read the same to explain why the company was burning soft coal. as the letter stated that the hard coal was not available from the dealer and they were compelled to use soft coal to heat the factory building, the company had tried also to have an oil burner installed and also tried to convert the boiler to heat with gas bdt ~r. Travis informed them that oil burner was not available or could the central Wudson furnish the adapter for burning gas.Mayor McCaff- erty suggested that Trustee Kane and Mr. Gilmore call on Dr. O'Brien the Health officer to ascertain if the proper authority could be reached to have the dealer deliver some hard co~l to eliminate the nuisance. Mr. Fred Caire approached the Board and announced that the Garner Engine Company appointed him to come before the Board to request if fog nozzles would be purchased for the fire company which is something to be added to the equipment as several homes have oil burners installed and the type of nozzle is made for the purpose of fighting fires caused by oil he .had a lot of experience in the U.S. Navy usiug this type of nozzle. The same wa~ referred to Chairman Temple of the Fire Committee; Trustee Kane and Mr. Gilmore returned from conferring with Health Officer Dr. O'Brien and reported that they were informed that the burning of soft ,coal was a public nuisance and he would communicate with the District Heal- th Officer to see what could be done about the matter of getting hard coal for the company. The regular o~der of business w~s taken up as followed. Trustee Kane suggested we go on record agreeing with the residents of Mss- let Ave. of the burning of soft coal being a public nuisances. $ 25~0. Police Justice Beg~ report for the month of Novembe~ was read ann- ouncing that the sum of $ ~3.00 collected in fines was forward to State Dept. as to comply with the new law. ~ 25~I. Health O£~lcer Dr. O'Brien submitted the following report for the *of November. DurinM the month there were great number of seasonal colds, some intestinal grippe and the latter part of the month some cases of Jau~. dice. There were no cases of contagious disease reported to health off- icer. There were however a case of tropical malaria in a soldierwho had just returned from New Guinea slides of blood were taken and the malarial